The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder and migraine headaches, both as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected conditions.
The deciding factor: The evidence is in at least approximate balance that the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder and migraine headaches are caused or aggravated by his service-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Acquired psychiatric disorder, to include other specified trauma-and-stressor-related stressor with adjustment-like disorder and depressive disorder due to another medical condition with major depressive-like episode, Migraine headaches including migraine variants
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 11, 2025
- Citation
- A25107422
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Decisions by this judge: 1,893 · Granted: 31% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss and remanded the claims for a rating in excess of 30 percent for migraine headaches, including migraine variants, and for service connection for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
- Partly granted
The Board denied a rating in excess of 70 percent for PTSD with TBI residuals, granted a separate rating for gait disturbance as a residual of TBI, and denied an effective date prior to May 26, 2020, for the 50 percent evaluation of migraine headaches including migraine variants.
- Granted
The Veteran's migraine headaches are rated at 30 percent disabling, effective February 26, 2019. The earlier effective date is granted based on the medical evidence showing that the frequency of attacks warranted a higher rating starting from this date.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's headaches are at least as likely as not caused by his service-connected traumatic brain injury, and thus grants service connection for this condition.
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